Build a Reasoning & Workflow Agent

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intermediate Python • basic understanding of agent workflows
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Agent planning • custom tool creation • workflow orchestration
Jeremie Charlet
1 week · 6-8 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE
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In the third liveProject, you’ll upgrade the capabilities of the RAG-enhanced chatbot, turning it into a multi-use-case agent using advanced reasoning, custom tools, and the ReAct framework. First, you’ll build a robust prompt chain with reasoning to classify queries and route them to the right path. Next, you’ll add practical tools and workflows with LangGraph to handle out-of-scope cases, capture user info, and blend retrieval with classification. Finally, unify everything into an agentic system that can choose tools, search knowledge, collect details, escalate when needed, and keep conversations natural.

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Jeremie Charlet
Jeremie Charlet is a freelance data science consultant specializing in NLP, MLOps, and generative AI product strategy. He has over a decade of experience delivering AI-powered solutions for startups, scaleups, and the UK government. As a startup founder, he is currently focusing on applying AI to support people with meditation and mental health. In addition, he teaches data science and generative AI in leading French business and engineering schools and has mentored ML practitioners through study groups and professional communities.

prerequisites

This liveProject is for Python programmers ready to develop basic chatbots into sophisticated AI agents with accurate personas. You should be comfortable with Python scripting and eager to learn advanced prompt engineering, custom tool development, and agent frameworks.


TOOLS
  • Intermediate Python
  • Basics of Jupyter Notebook
TECHNIQUES
  • Basics of text processing
  • Basics of file management
  • Basics of data structures
  • Basics of prompt engineering
  • Basics of API Integration
  • Basics of Retrieval Augmented Generation

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